The Grape gets some major love today from restaurant review site Zagat. Reviewers for Zagat declared the burger at The Grape as the best in the Dallas market.

The honors are part of a big burger survey in which more than 3,600 Zagat reviewers picked the top 10 burgers in 15 major markets in America (plus Toronto). The Grape’s classic cheeseburger received a rating of 26 out of a possible 30.

If you’ve been to San Salvaje recently, or read Leslie Brenner’s review of Stephan Pyles’ new restaurant and scrolled through the fantastic photos by Vernon Bryant, a particular dish may have caught your attention.

Does that fish have … hair?

San Salvaje serves a fried whole red snapper filled with deep-fried pickled green beans. In a Critic’s Notebook post in May, Leslie said they “sprung from the top of the fish like tempuraed dreadlocks.”

We’re not the only ones who have noticed. In her review in D Magazine, Nancy Nichols followed by saying the dish “resembles a Carmen Miranda and Bob Marley mash-up,” with “fried pickled green beans that jut out like dreadlocks across the plate.”

And today from the Observer’s Scott Reitz: “The beans look like dreadlocks and if Toots and the Maytals were playing on the sound system the fish could be mistaken for a Rastafarian.”

Great observations from all, but I think the dish looks more like the culinary embodiment of Crazy Eyes from Orange is the New Black. Not quite dreadlocks, but spiky, braided twists going all directions.

From the wayback machine: Monica Greene in Pegaso in downtown Dallas in 2003. (Staff file)

Dallas restaurateur Monica Greene has been absent from the scene since late 2012, when both Monica’s Nueva Cucina and Best Enchiladas Ever closed. But she’s apparently coming back, in Fort Worth this time.

Teresa Gubbins has the scoop on CultureMap: Greene will open Pegaso Diner near the TCU campus. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because Greene also operated the Pegaso Café Mexicano y Taqueria in downtown Dallas for a short time during 2003-04.

Pegaso will take over a space on Blue Bonnet Circle that formerly housed the bar Tiff & Andi’s, Gubbins reports.

Yelp this week released its list of the top 100 places to eat in the United States, based on the opinions of Yelp reviewers.

To come up with the list, Yelp used its “wealth of rich data.” (Basically, they used some math that is far beyond my understanding to look at look at star ratings, number of reviews and who knows what else to crown champions in their big ol’ popularity contest.)

Dallas-Fort Worth landed — drum roll, please — exactly zero restaurants on the list. In comparison, Austin had five, led by the much-beloved Franklin Barbecue in the No. 8 spot. I was fairly surprised by Dallas’ absence, given the rabid devotion to some places around town.

Then I looked at the number of reviews on a few popular places in Dallas and compared them with the Austin joints. Four of the five Austin restaurants on the list — Franklin, Uchiko (No. 85), Little Deli & Pizzeria (No. 86) and Uchi (No. 99) — had hundreds more reviews than Dallas’ most-reviewed restaurant. (Which, if you’re curious, is The Meddlesome Moth.)

Hat tip to Teresa Gubbins at CultureMap Dallas for this: Sfuzzi is closing the doors at its swanky Uptown location tonight.

The restaurant posted about the closure on its Facebook page yesterday, saying (in part): “Tomorrow evening will be the last night that we are open at 2533 McKinney Ave for the ‘FINALE’ on New Years Eve. A sincere thank you to the tremendous amount of love and support you have shown us over the past 3 and a half years.”

Sfuzzi had its Uptown heyday in the 1980s and ’90s, then reopened in 2010 across McKinney Avenue from its original location. When we last reviewed the Uptown location, in 2010, Leslie Brenner gave it 1 star.

Many in the Dallas food scene are mourning today after the death of Louie Canelakes, longtime operator of Louie’s bar and pizza joint on Henderson. Canelakes died Sunday at age 58.

Canelakes and his brother, Chris, were featured on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives in an episode that aired in March 2009. We dug through YouTube and found the segment. It mostly features Chris Canelakes in the kitchen with Guy Fieri, taking Fieri through the process of making Louie’s pizza and other dishes.

But Louie gets in there too, telling Fieri, “We pour a generous drink, (and) my brother’s got a generous hand with the food.” Indeed. After the episode aired, Louie told our Laura Jacobus back then that after the shoot wrapped up, he and Chris headed to Avila’s on Maple for lunch … only to find Fieri and his crew there too (and the restaurant closed). So Fieri fixed them lunch himself.

Check out the entire clip above. Do you have a favorite memory of Louie and the restaurant? Tell us in the comments or tweet us @GuideLive.

John Tesar at Spoon Bar and Kitchen (left), and Stephan Pyles at Stampede 66.

Congratulations are in order for Stampede 66 and Spoon Bar and Kitchen: Both Dallas restaurants landed on Esquire magazine’s Best New Restaurants 2013 list. The list is alphabetical, so no silly rankings. (Although writer John Mariani did declare Betony in New York the restaurant of the year.)

At Stampede, Mariani wrote, you’ll find “the sublimation of down-home cooking into great cuisine, from the crunchy honey-fried chicken with buttermilk biscuits and mashed-potato tots to the smoky barbecued beef brisket with potato salad.”

The Dallas restaurants have the honor of being the only Texas restaurants on Esquire’s list of 20. Now those are some braggin’ rights.

Stevens has leased space at 316 W. Davis St., the longtime home of Safety Glass Co., according to the report. The new restaurant, Stock and Barrel, “actively in the works and moving forward,” Stevens told Lopez.

Stevens left Nosh last April. In the meantime, he has been helping develop the menu at Mesero Miguel in Knox-Henderson. It’s set to open Thursday, Sept. 19.

After an already busy year, Dallas restaurateur Jay Jerrier is expanding his reach with plans to open a branch of Il Cane Rosso in Fort Worth, according to reports on DFW.com and Culture Map Dallas.

Jerrier has leased space in the 800 block of West Magnolia Avenue, in a location formerly occupied by Ryan’s Fine Grocery, which closed last month. He told DFW.com’s Bud Kennedy that when he saw that Ryan’s was closing, he jumped on the opportunity. “I learned that when you see something you want, grab it,” he said.

Most recently, Jerrier opened Zoli’s NY Pizza in Oak Cliff earlier this month. (But opening day didn’t go so smoothly.) Cane Rosso White Rock opened in Lakewood last spring.